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6/29/2015

If you’ve seen Orphan Black, you know that Tatiana Maslany
can act her way out of anything and, even if you haven’t, you’ve
probably heard rumblings on the internet of how great a performance she
gives. Son Lux came up with the idea for their “You Don’t Know Me”
video with her in mind, and she turns the standard trope of
dissatisfied housewife into something compelling and menacing without
doing anything showy. Maslany mouths along to the words opposite her
husband, played by Looper’s Noah Segan, and directs a cult-like
group of individuals through some ritualistic practices. It’s a
chilling, cold video — watch below, and read some words from director
Nathan Johnson about how it all came together.

When Ryan first sent the album over to The Made Shop,
this was the song that I kept coming back to. It touches a pretty raw
nerve, and we wanted to explore the song in terms of the empty rituals
we often see in relationships and, to a larger degree, religion. We
wrote the video specifically for Tatiana and designed everything around
her performance. She’s such a phenomenal actor, and she brings something
so compelling to the role – this powerful figure who is stuck in the
vacancy of routines that have lost their meaning.